The console wars between PlayStation and Xbox continue, and it’s about time PlayStation catches up to Xbox in one very important and seemingly obvious way that should have been remedied years ago.
Everyone is focused on the big news that more games from Xbox are making the trip over to PlayStation, but the important question is when we’re getting the best feature Xbox created in years.
PlayStation Still Lags Behind Xbox in One Regard
PlayStation has won the current generation of the ‘console wars’, and it’s not even been close. Having a far high user base, more sales and far greater user satisfaction and excitement has that outcome, and whilst Phil Spencer continues his current actions, that won’t change.
Xbox is seemingly in a free fall, as the hardware platform continues to slip further down the rankings in hardware sales year on year, and with Xbox Game Pass not being the Golden Goose many expected a few years ago, with a now stagnating and non-growing userbase, something will have to change for the next generation of consoles for sure.
However, as the divide grows, PlayStation continues to be left behind Xbox in one major regard that isn’t anything to do with Xbox Game Pass — the lack of quick resume. Quick resume, for those unaware, does exactly what it says on the tin. It allows you to take a game you may have been playing a few days ago, and continue it from the EXACT moment you put it down. Now, PlayStation’s rest mode does offer a version of this, but Xbox allows you to quick resume games that weren’t the last one you played, and that’s the difference. And let’s not pretend the activity cards are half as good or useful either.
It’s by and large the best mechanic that the Xbox Series of consoles has, and like the party chat system of years gone by, it should be something PlayStation unceremoniously steals to further improve player satisfaction.
After that, if they could arrange some deal to also include Xbox Game Pass onto the Sony system then the console wars really would be over, and us gamers would be the winners.
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